The lenticular galaxy, NGC 274, is visible on the right side of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, and the barred spiral, NGC 275, is at left. The twosome is located in the constellation ...
The Pillars of Creation are a group of interstellar gas and dust that form towering pillars in the Eagle Nebula, captured by Hubble Space Telescope. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the ...
The S0 lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 is unremarkable when observed in optical light (left, grayscale and black contours) very much an example of a "red and dead" galaxy but becomes alive and violent ...
SBa types feature tightly bound arms, while SBc types are at the other extreme and have loosely bound arms. SBb-type galaxies lie in between the two. SB0 is a barred lenticular galaxy. A new type, SBm ...
Day 3 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Hubble Space Telescope brings us this nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Lenticular galaxies have an elliptical shape and ...
Above is a striking image, also published in July 2021, of two enormous galaxies; a lenticular galaxy on the left called 2MASX J03193743+4137580 and a side-on spiral galaxy on the right named UGC ...